selling baby quilts
 

Hello, everyone. So, would you tell me what sort of success you've had with the various options for selling our quilted items. I have a whole stack of baby quilts, trying to start a business doing what I love, but have yet to find my niche.I make many each year to give to charities. I had a few at a local craft store, the owner said people loved them, but were mostly looking for home decor. I have a few on Etsy, and may try Ebay. Any other new and novel ideas out there? I live in a very rural area here, don't think a sign in my yard will work. Thanks.

This is REALLY out of the box - but - if you live anywhere near an area that has tourists, you might visit hotels (or B&Bs) and see if they would display your quilts "Local Artist" type of sale. I see you are in West Virginia - do you live anywhere near TAMARAK (SP??) and the road stop rest located on interstate 64, South of Charleston? We drive through there ALL the time and they have a craft store for WV artists in the rest stop and I believe a huge craft "place" behind it called TAMARAK (again not sure of spelling). I've never been inside of TAMARAK but I understand it is awesome and people do well there selling, I've spoken to two artists (weaver and knitter) who sell there. Just an idea.

There was a thread on this a while back and someone suggested hospital gift shops.
Good luck with your endeavors.

How about Craig's list?

Do you have Kijiji where you live? I'm going to try selling some of my quilted items on there in my area.

On the way back from visting my daughter in Virginia, stopped at Shoney's for dinner. This particular restaurant had LOTS of quilts for sale by local quiltmakers. They ranged from baby quilts all the way up to king size. Each quiltmaker had pinned a business-sized card to the quilt with the price on it and had written their name and contact information on the back. I bought one of the baby quilts for my daughter (expecting my first grandchild) for, I believe, $25. The only thing I had to do was put binding on it. Don't know if the price was too high or too low, but didn't care - I liked the fabric. Hope this helps.

Try commission shops

I bookmarked this link: http://smallbiztrends.com/2011/10/29...creations.html which gives 29 places to sell your handmade goodies, but I haven't gone through the list and tried them yet. Could be worth a try. I've tried to sell on etsy but didn't do anything much.

We lived in a very small community for a while, and the local artists had a co-op art display in town. Each volunteered some time (or money) to keep it going, and it seemed to work well for them.

I live in a rural area of about 350 people but on a very busy highway and have a sign in my front yard and do well. Also could try craft shows.